- Overview
- UI Automation
- Applications and technologies automated with UI Automation
- Project compatibility
- UI-ANA-016 - Pull Open Browser URL
- UI-ANA-017 - ContinueOnError True
- UI-ANA-018 - List OCR/Image Activities
- UI-DBP-006 - Container Usage
- UI-DBP-013 - Excel Automation Misuse
- UI-DBP-030 - Forbidden Variables Usage In Selectors
- UI-PRR-001 - Simulate Click
- UI-PRR-002 - Simulate Type
- UI-PRR-003 - Open Application Misuse
- UI-PRR-004 - Hardcoded Delays
- UI-REL-001 - Large Idx in Selectors
- UI-SEC-004 - Selector Email Data
- UI-SEC-010 - App/Url Restrictions
- UI-USG-011 - Non Allowed Attributes
- UX-SEC-010 - App/Url Restrictions
- UX-DBP-029 - Insecure Password Use
- UI-PST-001 - Audit Log Level in Project Settings
- UiPath Browser Migration Tool
- Clipping region
- App/Web Recorder
- UI elements extraction
- Table Extraction
- Linux Robots
- UI Automation Browser Connection
- Computer Vision Recorder
- Activate
- Anchor Base
- Attach Browser
- Attach Window
- Block User Input
- Callout
- Check
- Click
- Click Image
- Click Image Trigger
- Click OCR Text
- Click Text
- Click Trigger
- Close Application
- Close Tab
- Close Window
- Context Aware Anchor
- Copy Selected Text
- Element Attribute Change Trigger
- Element Exists
- Element Scope
- Element State Change Trigger
- Export UI Tree
- Extract Structured Data
- Find Children
- Find Element
- Find Image
- Find Image Matches
- Find OCR Text Position
- Find Relative Element
- Find Text Position
- Get Active Window
- Get Ancestor
- Get Attribute
- Get Event Info
- Get From Clipboard
- Get Full Text
- Get OCR Text
- Get Password
- Get Position
- Get Source Element
- Get Text
- Get Visible Text
- Go Back
- Go Forward
- Go Home
- Google Cloud Vision OCR
- Hide Window
- Highlight
- Hotkey Trigger
- Hover
- Hover Image
- Hover OCR Text
- Hover Text
- Image Exists
- Indicate On Screen
- Inject .NET Code
- Inject Js Script
- Invoke ActiveX Method
- Key Press Trigger
- Load Image
- Maximize Window
- Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR
- Microsoft OCR
- Microsoft Project Oxford Online OCR
- Minimize Window
- Monitor Events
- Mouse Trigger
- Move Window
- Navigate To
- OCR Text Exists
- On Element Appear
- On Element Vanish
- On Image Appear
- On Image Vanish
- Open Application
- Open Browser
- Refresh Browser
- Replay User Event
- Restore Window
- Save Image
- Select Item
- Select Multiple Items
- Send Hotkey
- Set Clipping Region
- Set Focus
- Set Text
- Set To Clipboard
- Set Web Attribute
- Show Window
- Start Process
- System Trigger
- Take Screenshot
- Tesseract OCR
- Text Exists
- Tooltip
- Type Into
- Type Secure Text
- Use Foreground
- Wait Attribute
- Wait Element Vanish
- Wait Image Vanish
- Application Event Trigger
- Check/Uncheck
- Check App State
- Check Element
- Click
- Click Event Trigger
- Close Popup
- Drag and Drop
- Extract Table Data
- For Each UI Element
- Get Attribute
- Get Browser Data
- Get Text
- Get URL
- Go to URL
- Highlight
- Hover
- Inject Js Script
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Keypress Event Trigger
- Mouse Scroll
- Navigate Browser
- Select Item
- Set Browser Data
- Set Runtime Browser
- Set Text
- Take Screenshot
- Type Into
- Use Application/Browser
- Perform browser search and retrieve results using UI Automation APIs
- Web Browsing
- Find Images
- Click Images
- Trigger and Monitor Events
- Create and Override Files
- HTML Pages: Extract and Manipulate Information
- Window Manipulation
- Automated List Selection
- Find and Manipulate Window Elements
- Manage Text Automation
- Load and Process Images
- Manage Mouse Activated Actions
- Automate Application Runtime
- Automated Run of a Local Application
- Browser Navigation
- Web Automation
- Trigger Scope Example
- Computer Vision Local Server
- Mobile Automation
- Release notes
- Project compatibility
- Get Log Types
- Get Logs
- Get Page Source
- Get Device Orientation
- Get Session Identifier
- Install App
- Manage Current App
- Manage Other App
- Open DeepLink
- Open URL
- Mobile Device Connection
- Directional Swipe
- Draw Pattern
- Positional Swipe
- Press Hardware Button
- Set Device Orientation
- Take Screenshot
- Take Screenshot Part
- Element Exists
- Execute Command
- Get Attribute
- Get Selected Item
- Get Text
- Set Selected Item
- Set Text
- Swipe
- Tap
- Type Text
- Terminal
UI Automation Browser Connection
The UI Automation Browser Connection capability helps the robot authenticate instead of the user, when the automation runs unattended, in the cloud, serverless.
This feature specifically addresses n-factor authentication automation scenarios. The most popular web enterprise business applications use n-factor authentication. Such an authentication mechanism requires the user to insert a security code, solve a captcha, or use a security token to complete the authentication, before accessing the application’s functional modules.
During a cloud automation execution, the user’s intervention to authenticate isn't possible and, even more, not recommended. Using the UI Automation Browser Connection capability, the robot resolves by itself the authentication process, based on the information provided when the automation was created, and it runs according to its schedule without requiring any user input.
To add a connection, follow the steps below:
- Click the Add activity button and add a Use Browser activity within your workflow.
- Select the drop-down menu from the Work in scope field and choose the tab you want to automate.
- Switch on the Requires Authentication toggle.
- Under the Connection field, select the plus button and then choose Add connection.
- Under Connection name, enter a unique name for your connection.
- (Optional) Under Connection description, write a description for your connection.
- The URL for sign in is automatically filled in based on your selection. Click Submit.
- You are now taken to the UI Automation Browser Connection screen where you need to sign in using your credentials.
- After successfully signing in, click the I'm done button. You are now taken back to your project where the new connection has been added.
This is how the entire process should look like:
To edit a connection, follow the steps below:
- Under the Connection field, select the plus button and then choose Edit connection.
- You are now taken to the UI Automation Browser Connection screen where you can reauthenticate if needed.
Besides using the UI Automation Browser Connection feature to authenticate, you can also use it to configure your browser.
Since the execution machine is always a new one, the browser is always in a fresh state and you might see certain popups at execution time causing your automation to fail.
So,you can use the feature to put the browser in the right state when building the workflow. Then, the robot makes sure the same state is set when starting the automation.
Azure Active Directory authentication
While using Azure Active Directory accounts for authentication, paired with the UI Automation Browser Connection feature, the automation runs repeatedly in a cloud environment. This might lead to the Active Directory server triggering identity protection mechanisms like asking the user to solve a captcha, or to change the account password.
To avoid this, we strongly suggest using dedicated service accounts specially configured for the robots.
Orchestrator shared folders
UI Automation Browser Connection cannot be used with Orchestrator shared folders, only with Orchestrator personal workspaces.
Application restrictions
The feature doesn’t work for web applications that delete the authentication cookies when the user closes the browser, thus mimicking a log out. For example, www.salesforce.com.
Studio Desktop
You cannot create or edit connections in Studio Desktop.
Server-based robots
platform
not supported runtime exception.
